October 1999
Teacher Magazine, Vol. 11, Issue 02
Education
Opinion
Beating The Odds
Research has documented what common sense tells us: Apart from family and socioeconomic influences, the quality of teaching is the single most important factor in student achievement.
Education
Opinion
Nothing To Celebrate: Postscript
In the summer of 1998, before the start of the Celebration School's third year, administrators met several times with disgruntled parents and promised to modify the school's progressive approach.
Education
Opinion
Nothing To Celebrate
The Walt Disney Co. set out to build the perfect school for the perfect town. But in the modern utopia called Celebration, things don't always turn out as planned.
Education
Opinion
Tiny The Tree
The chamber of commerce letter promised an Arbor Day lesson. But the kids learned something altogether different.
Education
Opinion
‘Mr. McCourt, You In Trouble?’
Before he was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt was a New York City teacher. Here, in an excerpt from his new book, 'Tis, McCourt recalls the day that his class made an unscheduled departure from the required-reading list. Includes related story